Ezekiel 30:1–26

A Lament for Egypt

30The word of the Lord came to me: ^2v“Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God:

^w“Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’

^3wFor the day is near,

^xthe day of the Lord is near;

it will be ^ya day of clouds,

a time of doom for¹ the nations.

^4zA sword shall come upon Egypt,

^aand anguish shall be in ^bCush,

when the slain fall in Egypt,

and ^cher wealth² is carried away,

and ^dher foundations are torn down.

^5bCush, and ^ePut, and Lud, and ^fall Arabia, and Libya,³ and the people of the land that is in league,⁴ shall fall with them by the sword.

⁶“Thus says the Lord:

^gThose who support Egypt shall fall,

and ^hher proud might shall come down;

ⁱfrom Migdol to Syene

they shall fall within her by the sword,

declares the Lord God.

^7jAnd they shall be desolated in the midst of desolated countries,

and their cities shall be in the midst of cities that are laid waste.

^8kThen they will know that I am the Lord,

when ^lI have set fire to Egypt,

and ^gall her helpers are broken.

⁹“On that day ^mmessengers shall go out from me in ships to terrify the unsuspecting ^bpeople of Cush, and ^aanguish shall come upon them on the day of Egypt’s doom;⁵ for, behold, it comes!

¹⁰“Thus says the Lord God:

ⁿ“I will put an end to the wealth of Egypt,

by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

¹¹He and his people with him, ^othe most ruthless of nations,

shall be brought in to destroy the land,

^zand they shall draw their swords against Egypt

and fill the land with the slain.

¹²And ^pI will ^qdry up the Nile

and will sell the land into the hand of ^revildoers;

^sI will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it,

by the hand of ^tforeigners;

^uI am the Lord; I have spoken.

¹³“Thus says the Lord God:

^v“I will destroy the idols

and put an end to the images in ^wMemphis;

^xthere shall no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt;

so ^yI will put fear in the land of Egypt.

¹⁴I will make ^zPathros a desolation

and will set fire to ^aZoan

^band will execute judgments on ^cThebes.

¹⁵And I will pour out my wrath on Pelusium,

the stronghold of Egypt,

and cut off the multitude⁶ of Thebes.

¹⁶And I will set fire to Egypt;

Pelusium shall be in great agony;

Thebes shall be breached,

and ^wMemphis shall face enemies⁷ by day.

¹⁷The young men of On and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword,

and the women⁸ shall go into captivity.

¹⁸At ^dTehaphnehes ^ethe day shall be dark,

when I break there the yoke bars of Egypt,

and ^fher proud might shall come to an end in her;

she shall be covered by a cloud,

and her daughters shall go into captivity.

¹⁹Thus ^gI will execute judgments on Egypt.

^hThen they will know that I am the Lord.”

Egypt Shall Fall to Babylon

²⁰ⁱIn the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: ^21j“Son of man, ^kI have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and behold, ^lit has not been bound up, to heal it by binding it with a bandage, so that it may become strong to wield the sword. ²²Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt and ^mwill break his arms, both the strong arm and the one that was broken, and I will make the sword fall from his hand. ²³ⁿI will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them through the countries. ²⁴And ^oI will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put ^pmy sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before him ^qlike a man mortally wounded. ²⁵I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall. ^rThen they shall know that I am the Lord, ^swhen I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt. ²⁶And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”